Trump knows business, having enjoyed an ultra-successful career as a business person. He knows jobs, having created thousands of jobs during his long career. Trump has learned how to deal with people, all kinds of people during this time. He understands finance and economics and how to negotiate deals. He knows business, and who can deny that being president, running the country, is like running a big, very big, business. So his experience in business has prepared him for the presidency like no political job ever could.

Trump has also endorsed a network marketing business in past years, not currently since he entered the presidential race, which in turn supported a charity that helped feed hungry children. By endorsing this business he helped people to improve their lives by helping them to own their own business, create more time for themselves and become independent, and in the process helped to provide food for starving kids, all as part of his effort to help people get a new start in life. It’s what Trump is all about. This was nothing new for him. He had been doing it for years. It’s what he called, rightfully so, making a difference. I have personal knowledge of all that, being a member of that network marketing business myself. So TRUMP CARES. He cares about people, he cares about the country, he cares about you.

No one can take any of that away from him, not for a moment, certainly not Crooked Hillary, who knows nothing about job creation, nothing about finance or economics, nothing about making deals, or about success in anything. She is corrupt, incompetent, and a world-class liar. She should hang a sign around her neck that says, “I am a fraud – don’t vote for me.” For once in her life, she’d be telling the truth. Hillary has also collected money, millions of dollars from foreign powers paid into the Clinton Foundation over the years, for her services, her favors, as Secretary of State. You know what that makes her? They have a name for it, not used in polite company. I don’t have to say it. But facts are facts, they are things, as John Adams argued in the famous Boston Massacre trial of 1770. You have to deal with them. This entire scheme is an arrangement that just reeks of corruption and is well deserving of an FBI investigation in and of itself.

Yet Crooked Hillary still claims she is qualified to be President. Amazing! Of course, she’s getting help, lot of it, from the liberal, very liberal, mainstream media. They are crooked too, as claimed by Trump, and rightly so. They have a duty to report news accurately, but they don’t. They distort everything so far as Trump is concerned even falsify things, and they shouldn’t. It’s an abuse of the constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press. But they are scared to death that Trump will win. They should be scared, because he will win.

Donald Trump, a first time politician, is without doubt a champion of private enterprise. This is what America was built on, not socialism. Tell that to Bernie Sanders. “[Private enterprise] has made this country great,” he remarked several years ago, long before he decided to run for president. Now, he wants to return the country to the greatness it previously enjoyed, greatness reflected across the board, not just in the great wealth of its people but the highest living standard in the world. You can create a good life for yourself as an entrepreneur as he well knows, “an unbelievable life” if you do well.

Trump has been successful as a commercial real estate developer including hotels and golf courses around the world. He is also a best selling author, e.g., “The Art of the deal,” (admitting inter alia to being skillful at overcoming obstacles), and a successful television producer, i.e.,”The Apprentice/Celebrity Apprentice.” He has a track record of successful accomplishments. Where are Hillary’s? Trump believes in hard work, taking care of the people who work for him, continued self-improvement, and to never, never give up. He is a devotee of making a difference in the lives of others. These characteristics reflect his spirit and are qualities which will translate well into what is seen as an effective presidency.

A comment was recently heard from someone who favors Barack Obama that he is to be lauded because he has “kept us out of war.”

This is nonsense, an entirely fallacious statement. It reflects total and complete naivety as to what’s going on in the world today. We are at war, but Obama fails to see it.

The absence of leadership from the White House is at the root cause of much of the terrorism that prevails in the world today. The terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium yesterday (for which ISIS claims responsibility) are only the latest examples of the global radical jihad (a term shunned by Obama) which is rampant in today’s world, an ongoing, unremitting, brutal form of warfare being perpetrated against civilized nations, a war which the current White House occupant still fails to recognize as such.

Obama has no idea how to deal with ISIS. He has never defined/adopted a policy for dealing with this terrorist group. A pinprick here and there from air attacks fails far short of what is needed to defeat it. What is lacking and is clearly needed is strong leadership from Washington to form and lead an international coalition to confront ISIS militarily, politically, economically, culturally, and financially, i.e., in every conceivable way, and stamp it out. To block all possible sources of financing may be the m0st effective approach. No group can operate without financing and will dry up if sources of money are cut off. This is a basic fact that, like many others, is not recognized in the White House.

The real problem is that the U.S. has elected someone as president who has no qualifications for the job. Obama never did have any track record of accomplishments. Being a community organizer doesn’t do it. But he had a broad smile, a friendly face, and a gift for gab that made him believable. Though promising hope and change, he delivered disappointment and discouragement. He lied to the American people. His legacy can be summed up in one word: incompetency.

This country needs strong, effective leadership, indeed, so does the free world. As the leading presidential candidate on the Republican side, Donald Trump, brings to the table a track record of proven accomplishments. He has been successful as a businessman, a television producer, and as an author. He is also controversial, but so was General George Patton. Patton was a leader; he knew how to get things done. Patton knew how to win, which made him undoubtedly WW II’s most effective general. He definitely had his faults, as does Trump. But Patton’s faults were inconsequential in light of his overall accomplishments.

Trump is cut from the same cloth as Patton. Trump may be blunt, brash, and outspoken but he is also audacious and knows how to get things done. He will bring to the presidency all of the skills he has mastered as a successful businessman, as set forth in his best selling book, “The Art of the Deal.” He knows how to cut deals profitably, a skill America badly needs, how to handle people, also a badly needed skill presently lacking in the White House, how to handle finances, and, importantly, he knows how to create jobs. He has had experience cutting through a broad array of obstacles. There should be no doubt that this experience can be put to good use as president not only in creating jobs, a very important issue, strengthening the American economy, also a very important issue, but in dealing with Congress and in handling foreign affairs. The job of being president needs someone with business savvy because running the country is akin to running a big business. Trump has those qualifications. As he put it in his book, he is good at overcoming obstacles and motivating good people to do their best work.

On the other side of the equation, Hillary doesn’t have the necessary skills to be president. In fact, as this blog has repeated urged, she brings nothing to the table. The country simply cannot afford to elect another incompetent president.

In other words, Hill’s so-called campaign is a fabrication, without substance, i.e., a lot of hot air.

Hillary postulated recently, during an interview, that she “always” tried to tell the truth. This pathetic response in itself is nothing but another lie. I shake my head in wonderment that such an unqualified, incompetent, but power-hungry woman can garner any support whatsoever.

Also, the ongoing FBI investigation deserves continued public attention. The public is entitled to know the results of that investigation, no matter what ultimate decision is made by the DOJ. The public has an absolute right to know what the facts are, as found by the FBI’s investigation. There should be no cover up, no protection granted.

There is no way to get around it – Hillary’s campaign is undoubtedly the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American public.

She brings nothing to the table, not even a lightweight, but a no-weight, a nonentity in every way. On top of the fact that she is utterly unqualified for any public office, much less the presidency, in terms of experience, leadership accomplishments, leadership traits, temperament, judgement, character, and competence, she is dishonest and a cheat. But she keeps lying, telling the people she is eminently qualified for the presidency. Even trying to shrug off the ongoing FBI investigation, a criminal investigation no less, as a security check, or something like that. She is a congenital liar, as succinctly put years ago by the late William Safire, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.

This is a low point in American politics, that she should even be considered as worthy of the Democrat Party nomination.

Lets look at her misuse of top secret, highly classified government data. This is perhaps the most glaring example of her total and complete lack of judgement. To say she didn’t send or receive any classified information because nothing was marked classified at the time is a monstrous lie. As Secretary of State (a terrible, totally unjustified appointment in and of itself, but that’s another story), she should well know what is classified and what is not. She received formal training on the classification process and the standards for handling classified information. Having information such as top secret/SAP emails on her private, unsecured server, put many people, even the entire country at risk. Well placed security operatives may lose their lives if their true allegiance is revealed. Her conduct is not merely despicable. It deserves to be considered treasonous and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, including any applicable prison term.

But like I always say, fair is fair. Hillary should be given every chance to explain her reckless, totally unsupportable misuse of top secret classified government information – after she’s released from prison.

Hill is dangerous for the country. If she had a shred of decency, she would just admit the coming charges by the FBI are true, save the people the expense of any further investigation, and simply withdraw from the race.

Further, as if her reckless, misuse 0f classified information is not enough, her propensity to lie about everything should be the clincher. How can anything she says or does be considered truthful? Even when she doesn’t lie (if ever), who would believe her? With no credibility, she would be unable to function as a president.

And her failure to tell the truth is a piece of historical fact that will follow her around wherever she goes. It already has, but many in the media continue to disregard it. She knew the Benghazi attack was terrorist based, based on an email to her daughter the night of the attack. But she had the gall to stand there with Obama in front of the 4 coffins containing the bodies of the Americans killed in the attack and blame it on a video which (according to official reports) caused street riots to escalate. However, Hillary says she answered all the questions at the hearings! The question to be answered is how many more Americans would die if she was president?

This power-hungry but unqualified, incompetent woman is not presidential material. Not even close. She will say anything, do anything to get what she wants. We can only hope that the mainstream of America will come to realize that, if they haven’t already.

I saw the movie “13 Hours” yesterday. It deals with the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound at Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. I came out of the theater virtually shaking with anger from what our people at the compound had to endure over a 13 hour period because of security failures. The attack on the compound was well organized, well coordinated, well planned, and supported by not only automatic weapons but mortar fire. The attack cost the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Aside from the fact that the movie was a riveting, compelling, action- packed true story, well worth seeing from that standpoint alone, the political implications from the lack of security have been and still are enormous.

It’s hard to believe that in this day and age our government was so inept. It’s easy using 20-20 hindsight to fix blame for the security shortcomings there. But then again the shortcomings were clearly visible and an attack was predictable. So, hindsight is not necessary; foresight was enough. The trouble is, those responsible for security had none. They were grossly incompetent. That includes Obama’s White House and Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State, among others.

Benghazi had been a hotbed of unrest, gripped by civil war and terrorist activities since Gadhafi had been toppled. The environment was bad enough to force Britain and France both to close their embassies. European security officials were worried that weapons and vehicles were being stockpiled in Benghazi, post Gadhafi and that al Quaeda was gaining a foothold. The U.S. well knew the diplomatic situation there was dangerous, so dangerous in fact that it had to be labeled “critical,” according to the movie. Yet, we did not pull out. True we had no embassy but only a diplomatic compound. Nevertheless, what we had there was grossly under- protected, and the failure to fully protect that compound, given the unstable environment, can only be ascribed to gross incompetence, even criminal negligence.

Wikipedia, while not necessarily the repository of the last word on anything, still is to be regarded as possessing some authority. It does say that the Secretary of State, among other duties and responsibilities, “ensures the protection of the U.S. Government to American cities, personnel, and interests in foreign countries.” That duty was flatly abrogated in this instance.

What has really aggravated the situation regarding the lack of protection for the Benghazi compound is the fact that both Obama and Hillary compounded their manifest failures by lying about how the attack originated. Standing by the caskets of the four Americans killed in the raid, after the remains arrived in the U.S., Obama claimed, and Hillary knowingly acquiesced, in the bald-faced lie that the raid had been inspired by a video, when they both had information attesting to the fact that it was a terrorist attack. Hillary emailed her daughter the night of the attack, telling her the raid was terrorist based, a fact which came out during her testimony at the last hearing. The lie, repeated on Sunday talk shows by Susan Rice and others, was made in the time before Obama’s election, and undoubtedly helped in that regard quite a bit.

My distain for Hillary as a candidate for any public office, much less the presidency, is hardly a closely guarded national secret. But after seeing this movie, my feelings have intensified dramatically. She brings nothing to the table in terms of dealing with tough issues. She has no proven track record of success at anything. She is eminently inexperienced, unqualified, and incompetent. She is also a world-class liar, one whose lies are a matter of record. The Greek philosopher Aristotle put it nicely: “Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.” Serious questions also abound as to her character, honesty, trustworthiness, temperament, and judgement. She is a power-hungry woman who is dangerous for this country. The country made a terrible mistake by electing the present White House occupant; that mistake must not be repeated.

In one of my recent blogs, I mentioned that predictions of the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, came from at least two sources. But I didn’t mention the sources. So, here they are. One was from a Peruvian source known to U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Grew. This is discussed on page 118, footnote 7, of my new book, “Prelude to Disaster: How Imperial Japan’s Diplomatic Treachery Led to America’s Greatest Military Disaster – Pearl Harbor,” available on amazon.com in both Kindle and print.

It is pointed out in that footnote that Ambassador Grew’s testimony before the Joint Congressional Committee which issued the report which forms the essential basis for my book, was that, with the single exception of information on which his message of January 27, 1941 was based, he had no knowledge or indication from any source prior to the attack which indicated the possibility of such an attack. The information on which that message was based is explained in footnote 7, as follows: “My Peruvian colleague told a member of my staff that he had heard from many sources including a Japanese source that the Japanese military forces planned in the event of trouble with the United States to attempt a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor using all of their military facilities. He added that although the project seemed fantastic the fact he had heard it from many sources prompted him to pass on the information. Paraphrased copies were promptly sent by the State Department to Military Intelligence Division (Army) and Office of Naval Intelligence (Navy).” (Emphasis added). Interesting stuff.

The other source came somewhat earlier but was more authoritative. In 1937, General George Patton was the G-2, i.e., military parlance for Intelligence Officer, for the Hawaiian Islands, in charge of security for the Islands and their vulnerability to attack. Patton had followed Japan’s continued aggression 0ver the years, including its invasion and conquest of Manchuria in 1931 and its invasion of China in 1933, and believed that war with Japan was likely. That year, 1937, he wrote a paper entitled “Surprise” in which he predicted, with uncanny accuracy, a Japanese attack on Hawaii. This bit of information comes from an excellent book about General Patton entitled “Patton – A Genius For War,” by Carlo D’Este, page 361.

So, the idea of a Japanese attack against the U.S. itself was likely scoffed at and little, if anything, was done about it. But, nevertheless, those two straws in the wind, coming from widely disparate sources, did exist.

More disturbing to me was the apparent failure of those directly concerned with the nation’s security to foresee that elimination of the U.S. Pacific Fleet would fit nicely into Japanese plans to push south in the Pacific, towards Malaya, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), the Philippines, and Australia, among other areas, plans which were undoubtedly anticipated by the U.S. (See e.g., book, pp 41- 42).

This is where my dilemma arose. To say the attack was therefore foreseeable would fit well into the “In Retrospect” or conclusory part of my book. However, on reflection, to add that comment to the book seemed a bit presumptive on my part. It just didn’t seem right for me, coming along some 74 years later, to say that the attack was foreseeable and, therefore, should have been preventable. So, I left it out. There were some very skilled and highly intelligent and competent people in The White House, the State Department, and the armed forces, who arguably failed to see the attack coming so I decided not to second guess them. Maybe, when and if I do a revised edition of the book, I’ll put it in. In the meantime you’ll have to read the book yourselves and decide whether I made the right decision. Please let me know what you think via a comment to this post.